The White House for the first time has claimed possession of an Iraq withdrawal plan, arguing that a troop pullout blueprint unveiled this past week by a Democratic senator was "remarkably similar" to its own....

The statement late Saturday by White House spokesman Scott McClellan came in response to a commentary published in The Washington Post by Joseph Biden, the top Democrat of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in which he said US forces will begin leaving Iraq next year "in large numbers."....

Even though Bush has never publicly issued his own withdrawal plan and criticized calls for an early exit, the White House said many of the ideas expressed by the senator were its own.

And I guess we're supposed to forget the fact that Bush and Cheney pilloried Democrats for embracing a withdrawal plan only a week ago.

Time for the media to ask Bush what changed in the last week that suddenly makes a withdrawal acceptable?

And in fact, As Atrios has mentioned, quoting someone else whose name eludes me, this isn't a real withdrawal anyway. It's a feint. Bush is simply embracing withdrawal because he's desperate and he knows it's what the public wants. He's not going to go through with it, even a partial withdrawal. And in any case, our soldiers will continue to die because this war is a disaster and we're losing. So long as we have a significant number of soldiers in Iraq, the deaths will continue and this war will continue to be an albatross around the neck of the worst president ever.

The White House for the first time has claimed possession of an Iraq withdrawal plan, arguing that a troop pullout blueprint unveiled this past week by a Democratic senator was "remarkably similar" to its own....

The statement late Saturday by White House spokesman Scott McClellan came in response to a commentary published in The Washington Post by Joseph Biden, the top Democrat of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in which he said US forces will begin leaving Iraq next year "in large numbers."....

Even though Bush has never publicly issued his own withdrawal plan and criticized calls for an early exit, the White House said many of the ideas expressed by the senator were its own.

And I guess we're supposed to forget the fact that Bush and Cheney pilloried Democrats for embracing a withdrawal plan only a week ago.

Time for the media to ask Bush what changed in the last week that suddenly makes a withdrawal acceptable?

And in fact, As Atrios has mentioned, quoting someone else whose name eludes me, this isn't a real withdrawal anyway. It's a feint. Bush is simply embracing withdrawal because he's desperate and he knows it's what the public wants. He's not going to go through with it, even a partial withdrawal. And in any case, our soldiers will continue to die because this war is a disaster and we're losing. So long as we have a significant number of soldiers in Iraq, the deaths will continue and this war will continue to be an albatross around the neck of the worst president ever.

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